You Can`t Stand Bills? Look At The Alternative

Don King at our doorstep ... David Duke anywhere ... 1991 Dolphin highlights ... video of George Bush puking (in Japanese with subtitles).

Your answer: What would we rather see today than Denver beating Buffalo and advancing to the Super Bowl?

Ding! Ding! Ding!

You win! Yes, this is becoming scary, folks. The Broncos are one upset afternoon from making the Super Bowl in Minneapolis as appealing as the weather in Minneapolis.

Traditionally, we give the game a quarter before discovering it stinks.

So if the Broncos beat Buffalo and go on, does the game have to? That`s what everyone wants to know.

Even Dan Reeves, coach of three of Denver`s four blowout Super Bowl losses, agrees (sort of) with this assessment on the eve of today`s 12:30 p.m. game in Rich Stadium.

``There`s a lot of people apparently pulling for us not to go any further than this,`` he said. ``I guess they don`t like Super Bowls one-sided -- which, I guess, automatically if we`re there, they think that`s the way it`s going to be.``

He then shook his head and chuckled. Reeves is a good guy and better coach. So you can`t blame him for scoffing at the scoffers.

But you can`t root for the Broncos, either. If they really want to keep playing in a bowl, why not pit them against Nebraska?

That way, one of the most predictable post-season losing streaks in football would end.

SOME ARE FORGETTING

The scariest thing of all is that a lot of people are suffering from Super Bowl Alzheimer`s. They have forgotten about these Broncos at this game.

Certainly they have forgotten about John Elway. He worked magic in driving from the 2 in the final seconds to beat Houston last week. But suddenly people think he can beat anything but Kryptonite.

Broncos running back Steve Sewell called him the ``greatest of all time.`` Bills defensive end Bruce Smith said Elway ``does whatever he has to do to win.``

``When you`ve got No. 7,`` Reeves said, ``anything is possible.``

Well, that`s true. Losing 39-20, as the Broncos did in the `87 Super Bowl, is possible. As is losing 42-10 in the `89 Super Bowl. And 55-10 two years ago.

Now the Broncos want to return like a migraine. The good news is they probably won`t. Not against these Bills, 11-point favorites because of the league`s best offense and stout defense.

And not in this stadium. Of course these fans are ready. Some have even come out of hibernation for this game.

One local aerobics class had 300 people doing an hourlong workout Saturday to the Bills fight song.

So they`re ready. Now if we could only get the weather working. The temperature could be around 40 degrees.

``Snow and cold might hurt us more than them,`` Reeves said.

Let it snow, let it snow ...

LOOK WHO`S HERE

You want more reasons to root against Denver? Here is one: Brian Sochia.

He is on this team. Funny, everyone has been talking so much that trading Tim McKyer was the missing link to the Dolphins` playoff quest, we forgot all about Sochia.

Could it have been Sochia`s absence that caused the Dolphins to ... naw. You remember Sochia. Announced as signed, then didn`t sign. Said he would welcome the Dolphins back from their season-opening Buffalo loss wearing Bills` red- and-blue face paint.

He eventually signed, was sent packing and now is with the Broncos. He got off the team bus after practice and walked into the hotel without Bills` paint.

Me? I`m rooting for a Buffalo-Detroit Super Bowl. Detroit because it is the most intriguing team still playing.